Living for Disco

I’ve just been reading an article in the Namibian about a 17 year old Windhoek school kid, who used his cell phone to film his girlfriend doing something pornographic, and then sent the clip to as many people he could think of.  What a charmer.

Anyway, apparently the head of the Namibian National Teacher’s Union has had something to say about this, along the lines of ‘now we must address sex education properly,’ etc. etc. (This is a good thing, as about a fifth of all pregnancies in Namibia are in girls under 18.)  He said:  “Gone are the days when we told children that babies come with the aeroplane.”

Excuse me?  Is this a modern variation on the stork that I have until this minute been unaware of?  It’s especially bizarre, as I’ve never seen a sky so free of aeroplanes as I have in Namibia.  There just aren’t any.  Most kids in Namibia have never even seen an aeroplane, let alone had one drop a be-parachuted infant on them from the sky in the dead of night.  I would have thought it more likely that kids are being told that babies spring fully formed from the mahangu field, or from behind the shebeen.

In any case, it’s all ok, because they then shifted their focus away from the bothersome issue of having to actually tell kids about sex, and instead are concentrating on being concerned that kids have expensive equipment with which to film themselves having sex.  So that’s alright then.

Also, incidentally, my spell checker is throwing up the word ‘aeroplane’ as a misspelling.  Apparently I should be saying ‘airplane’.  This is, frankly, ridiculous.

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